“We’ve been there, too. Being a new dad is awesome & crazy & overwhelming & humbling & frustrating all at the same time. There hasn’t been one dad in the history of dadkind that hasn’t been ‘figuring it out along the way.” To help you jump up that learning curve a little faster, here are…
Tag Archive: Fatherhood
Homebirth Dads: 10 Questions with Jeremy Dyen
10 Questions for Homebirth Dads with Jeremy Dyen Jeremy Dyen makes his digital home over at Stay at Home Papa: “A musician-papa shares his fatherhood, work and family experience. Here you can get attachment parenting ideas, listen to new music and more…” 1. Why did you choose homebirth? The more my wife and I educated…
Labor of Love Radio Show Interview
I was a guest on an internet radio show last week, in an episode titled “A Dad’s Eye View”, in which I give my two cents about fatherhood, pregnancy and childbirth, and parenting from a dad’s perspective: “Ever wonder how men view pregnancy, childbirth and fatherhood? With a focus on understanding the emotional impact of…
Glogging, a Dad’s Eye View, and Natural Birth Dads
I missed Two-fer Tuesday, but I’ve got a couple cool links to share with you. I’m calling these Papa’s Picks, and hope you check them out! I got an email the other day with the word “Glogging” in the subject line. I thought, that’s a really funny typo, and then clicked through the link in…
Special Fathers Day Issue of Good Men Project Magazine Coming June 16
If you haven’t seen the Good Men Project Magazine yet, you’ll want to check it out this Wednesday, June 16, for their Fathers Day edition. I like what I’ve seen so far, and I’m looking forward to reading the latest.
Review of The Evolution of Dad Film
The role of the dad in families is rapidly changing. I know, state the obvious, eh? More fathers are opting to be the stay at home caregiver, there’s an increased interest for dads to be a bigger participant in their children’s lives, and more men are questioning their priorities. And that’s a good thing. Because if…
Two-fer Tuesday: The Revolution and Baby Burritos
My apologies for missing a week of posts, including Two-fer Tuesdays, last week. Natural Papa was hit not once, but twice, by hackers, and it was a major deal to clean all of the code out of the site. (If you’re on GoDaddy hosting, you might want to check yours as well. See this post…
The Evolution of Dad Film
I’m looking forward to seeing the completed film The Evolution of Dad, to be released on Father’s Day 2010. Here’s the trailer: The Evolution of Dad is a thought-provoking documentary about what it means to be a contemporary American father. Following the personal journey of filmmaker and dad, Dana H. Glazer, the film explores how…
Two-fer Tuesday: Dads and Toddlers, Tiger and Jesse
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted a Two-fer, but I’m back on track now. My process for picking these is simple: Open up my feed reader (I love Feedly for RSS subscriptions), scan through my ‘fathers’ and ‘parenting’ folders, looking for gems to share with you. If you’ve got a favorite post I…
Giants of Men
[This is a revised version of a post originally published on Jan. 11, 2009, one that I felt was worth revisiting.] This weekend, I buried my grandfather. He was a giant among men, and will be sorely missed. He lost his wife of 65 years to cancer over two years ago, and he still lived…
Don’t Point That Thing at Me: 02.12.10
Be careful of kids with cameras. And never post the photos they take of you on the web.
